Bush's War on Free Press

Our Democracy is based on an informed populous with access to a free press. That press is endangered on several fronts. First of all, newspapers are losing readership by leaps and bounds. Most of the voters in America rely on sound bites of news from TV. That is not the way to be an informed populous, especially since the Republican's are buying up media sources and will soon hold a monopoly on what major media will say.
Bush's war on the free press is well thought through and will be effective, unless we can educated the public before they strangle the last source of untainted information.
Free Press

America’s leadership is waging a war against the journalistic standards and practices that underpin not only a free press but our democracy. The Fourth Estate is withering under an unprecedented White House assault designed to intimidate, smear and discredit investigative journalism — and allow the president and his political cronies to lie with impunity. If left unchecked, this and future administrations will continue to:

• manipulate the media "message" by producing propaganda, putting journalists on the government payroll and tightly scripting all public events;


• dismiss all dissenting views in the media as biased and politically motivated;


• undermine public trust in journalism using the right-wing “echo chamber” to sow hostility toward reporters who challenge the official line; and


• eliminate access to information making it nearly impossible for journalists to investigate vast swathes of the federal government.

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